Aerid Konatrari by zerokiwi

Format: Commander

Commander: Aerid Konstrari

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This Gruul artifact deck is commanded by Aerid Konstrari, focusing on mana velocity, artifact accumulation, and scaling combat pressure. The deck leverages an efficient suite of 1-2 CMC ramp spells and rocks to deploy Aerid by Turn 4. Aerid creates Heartwood artifact mana tokens upon entering and dying, ensuring continuous mana production while feeding artifact-affinity spells and scaling power boosts. Combat pressure accelerates rapidly on Turn 5 through artifact-scaling equipment like Nettlecyst and Adaptive Omnitool, or via heavy artifact creatures such as Traxos, Scourge of Kroog, Furnace Hellkite, and Darksteel Colossus. The deck relies on sequential combat damage to eliminate opponents by Turn 8. While it features limited card draw engines and lacks stax elements, its redundant big-mana threats and resilient token generation provide consistent mid-game closing power.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Adaptive Omnitool
  • 1 Aerid Konstrari
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Brass's Bounty
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Call Damage Control
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craftwork Crusher
  • 1 Darksteel Colossus
  • 1 Diamond Weapon
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Echoing Assault
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 For the Common Good
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Fountainport
  • 1 Frogmyr Enforcer
  • 1 Furnace Hellkite
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Giggling Skitterspike
  • 1 Golem Artisan
  • 1 Gruul Cluestone
  • 1 Gruul Guildgate
  • 1 Gruul Keyrune
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 H.E.R.B.I.E. Scout Unit
  • 1 Hall of Echoes
  • 1 Heartwood Crafter // Soul Tether
  • 1 Iron Giant
  • 1 Jiang Yanggu, Never Alone
  • 1 Konstrari Charm
  • 1 Konstrari Improviser // Soul Tether
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liquimetal Coating
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Magnetic Snuffler
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Nettlecyst
  • 1 Nuka-Cola Vending Machine
  • 1 Nuka-Nuke Launcher
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Puppet Crafting
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Relentless X-ATM092
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Rootcast Apprenticeship
  • 1 Scaretiller
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Slagwoods Bridge
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 The Vision
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Training Compound
  • 1 Traxos, Scourge Eternal
  • 1 Traxos, Scourge of Kroog
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 True Ancestry
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodwork Prodigy // Soul Tether
  • 1 Workshop Assistant